Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 153

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 153

Gwiroae (3)

 

 

 

Camila Duarte.

An executive of the ‘City Cartel’, said to be the largest pillar among the thirteen that make up the ‘Axis of Evil’.

She was the head of the Korean branch in the emerging drug market and also a supervisor for the Asia-Pacific region,

and she was having a conversation with someone at the club ‘Tronica’.

“So what exactly are you trying to say? Stop beating around the bush already.”

Camila crossed her legs to the other side while keeping a cigar in her mouth. The slit in her skirt revealed her bronze-toned legs.

A sight that was sensual yet threatening at the same time.

Because of this, the bodyguards present either turned their gazes away with flushed faces or coughed awkwardly while squeezing their eyes shut.

More than a few had lost their heads for staring blankly at her.

It was a sight befitting an apostle of Arachne, who was said to be the origin of all spiders in the world.

However,

“Well, I think I’ve explained enough by saying this much.”

This didn’t particularly apply to the handsome man sitting across from her.

The man with neatly combed blonde hair laughed heartily and downed the whiskey in his hand.

Clink.

The ice cubes inside made a clear sound as they hit the glass.

“Ah. This tastes great. What was this called again? I should buy one to take back to France.”

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Plus the intense EDM beats coming from outside the room.

The man was starting to like this place—no, Korea.

A paradise full of places to party 24 hours a day.

Why was France in such a sorry state?

‘Should I just kill him?’

Meanwhile, Camila frowned with a displeased expression. She had sucked on her cigar so deeply that only half remained.

Her murderous urge wasn’t just a metaphor or impulse.

It was a serious consideration.

The man’s name was Maxence Erion Degremont.

He was a member and executive of the secret society ‘Sons of Zeus’.

Maxence had come to Korea for one reason only.

Namely,

to find Gwiroae.

‘You want to find Gwiroae, so you contact us who have a grudge against him? And to me, whose honor was tarnished because of that bastard?’

Actually, Camila had initially planned to refuse Maxence’s contact.

She intended to kill Gwiroae as soon as she found him.

She was in a position where she absolutely couldn’t work with those who desperately sought Zeus, known as Gwiroae’s myth.

However,

the proposal Maxence first made was quite strange.

‘He said we should part ways after finding clues, right? Whether we fight each other or one of us takes him first.’

So she suspected that while Maxence claimed to be looking for Zeus, he actually intended to eliminate Gwiroae first.

In fact, she had heard that within the Sons of Zeus, there were quite a few who were wary that Zeus’s Apostle might seize command over them.

‘We were also having difficulties with tracking on our end.’

Gwiroae had truly vanished without a trace.

No matter how much they investigated, nothing came up. Whenever they thought they had caught a lead, it would disappear midway.

This meant someone was secretly hiding information about him.

Jet was the most suspicious, so they investigated him, but this also failed.

White Burn rejected their contact proposal, and Jet showed a completely different fighting style from Gwiroae.

Still, they tried to dig up something by joining hands with the Central Hero Committee—no, Ping Xin, but…

‘All that came back was Lucas Montenegro’s pathetic death. Damn it!’

Naturally, no traces of Gwiroae could be found on Lucas’s corpse either.

Lightning mages usually leave distinctive lightning marks.

This was because lightning attributes were known to have very unique magic power patterns.

In the end,

 

-Oh, my most precious and beloved Cami.

 

Camila was forcibly summoned by the Boss.

 

-You’re my bluebird, you know? So you know well how much I hate it when business gets ruined. But… you’ve been making unusually frequent mistakes lately?

 

A dark, closed room.

The sweet yet dangerous voice that echoed from within still rang in her ears.

 

-Put a collar on him and drag him before me. If not,

 

At the end, those red lips whispered in Camila’s ear.

 

-you’ll be the one wearing it.

 

‘…I don’t have much time left.’

Camila knew how much the Drug King loved and cherished his organization members.

He always called them ‘familia (family)’.

But she also knew how dangerous he could be.

Once you fell out of favor, that was the end.

There were no second chances, and she would end up floating somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

That’s why she had joined hands with the Sons of Zeus.

Wondering if they might have some method to find Zeus.

But…

‘He’s going to take everything for himself and give me nothing, is that it?’

Maxence had just said earlier.

That they would withdraw from the investigation.

“Well, since you don’t seem to understand, let me say it again. The cartel’s methods are too unpleasant. I don’t like them. Whenever someone you don’t like appears, kidnapping is basic, then violence, threats… Ugh, it’s so frightening I can hardly stay—”

“You found Gwiroae, didn’t you?”

Camila cut off Maxence’s rambling words mid-sentence.

Her eyes sharpened.

Conversely, one corner of Maxence’s mouth twisted.

At that moment,

Swoosh!

Something glinted momentarily under the dim lighting,

“Don’t move!”

At Maxence’s shout, the Hunters from Zeus’s sons’ side who had been standing behind them stopped moving mid-motion.

“……Monsieur, this is.”

“This place is already filled with mana threads. Don’t move carelessly.”

The Hunters’ pupils trembled slightly as they noticed their sleeves had been cleanly cut.

They could feel something wrapped around their necks as well.

Maxence looked at Camila with her venomous eyes and twisted one corner of his mouth.

“Latin women are charming for their fiery nature. Then again, spiders are most alluring when angry, so perhaps you’re well-matched?”

French-style insolence bordering on harassment.

Camila’s eyes blazed with fire.

“Gwiroae, where is he? Tell me.”

“Well. I’d need to clear this up first before I can speak candidly, don’t you think?”

“If you don’t speak… you die.”

Maxence’s eyes curved into crescents.

“Here? Oh, but there are too many watching eyes. Do you like that sort of thing?”

A comment that crossed the line completely.

Just as the mana thread flashed blue light and was about to tighten around Maxence’s jaw,

Rumble!!

Suddenly, a violent earthquake struck.

Crackle! Snap!

At the same time, flashing lights. Sparks flew from the electric lights.

Intense lightning energy could be felt.

“……What is that?”

In an instant, Camila’s eyebrows twitched,

“You asked if I’d found Gwiroae earlier, didn’t you, madam?”

Maxence lightly pushed away the mana thread that had approached his jaw with his index finger and refilled his glass with liquor.

“What need is there for that? He’s come looking on his own anyway.”

“What?”

Just as Camila was about to ask what he meant,

Bang!!

Suddenly the room’s door burst open roughly and a man came running in.

“S-Supervisor! This is terrible! R-right now outside, Gwiroae is…!!”

“……!!!”

Camila retracted her mana threads and rushed out of the room urgently. The cartel’s Hunters also hurriedly followed behind her.

Finally, only silence descended on the room.

The club, now empty of people, echoed only with loud beats.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

In Maxence’s eyes as he quietly drank his last glass, all emotion had already disappeared.

He was like an expressionless wooden statue.

 

* * *

 

Lee Hyeon slowly passed through the club’s corridor.

Civilians he let go.

Mafia members,

“Die,”

Crash!!

He killed immediately.

Anyway, this building was completely dominated by his Kéraunos.

With electric current spread everywhere, he could strike down enemies the moment they appeared.

“Damn it all!!”

“Just die already!”

“Get lost…!!”

The enemies tried to use the narrow corridor to rush at Lee Hyeon and drive him out somehow,

Crash crash bang!!

Rumble-

The current flowing along the walls caused chain explosions, and they died in blasts before they could even reach him.

The same went for those hiding in blind spots or lurking on the ceiling with stealth techniques.

Flash!

When Lee Hyeon lightly swung his rune staff, the current flowing inside the walls instantly spat out lightning bolts that devoured them. It was death by electrocution.

Because of this,

More died while lurking somewhere than those who died trying to block Lee Hyeon.

“Ugh, ugh, uaaah!!”

“Monster! That’s a real monster…!!”

“Fuck, get lost! Get lost!!”

Lee Hyeon moved really slowly.

So slowly you’d think a turtle was walking.

Even the secret hideouts prepared to avoid police raids were all destroyed. The emergency power grid and security magic systems were also ruined and completely non-functional.

“Damn it…! Why won’t it connect! Why… isn’t it working… why…!!”

The same went for those trying to somehow notify Mexico that Gwiroae had invaded.

They clutched their receivers and wailed before burning to death. It was a miserable end after torture by hope.

“Damn! Door! Open the door!!”

“Fire door! Lower the fire door first!!!”

Whirr! Whirr!

Click!

“Got it!!”

Then somehow a fire barrier that barely worked came down quickly and trapped Lee Hyeon.

“Haha! Got it! We trapped that bastard! Fuck! Hey! You think that’s just a simple fire shelter? Now all you have left is to starve to death in there, you bastard! Knowing someday a guy like you would break in, we spent a shitload of money to build this prison!!”

One man pointed at the fire barrier and cackled while hurling mockery.

The gang members who had been secretly hiding and watching the scene also sneakily came out to examine the place.

Was he really… trapped?

Hope that they might survive bloomed in their eyes.

“You know who we are? Fuck!! Do you know who we are! We’re the legitimate Duarte Familia of the City Cartel! A little shit like you, if we put our minds to it…!”

Thud!

Suddenly a tremendous shockwave was transmitted, enough to shake the fire barrier.

Not only the shouting man but also those who had crawled outside all froze,

But seeing the fire barrier was fine without even a crack, they became triumphant again.

“Fucking hell, really! Hahaha! Try all you want! That won’t make things…!”

Thud!

“…any bet, ter…!”

Thud thud!

“…What? Huh? Huh huh?”

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!!

The sight of the thick fire barrier steel wall gradually denting like a beverage can.

It approached as terror.

Then as the impacts continued in succession, the fire barrier was completely crushed in an instant,

Before the man who had been mocking could react, he was swept away by the steel wall that exploded outward. It was death by crushing.

Crash!!

Whoosh-

White flames rushed violently. Mixed with the current flowing along the walls, they swept away all the remaining gang members who had come outside.

An overwhelming scene of carnage no different from a massacre.

The Duarte Familia was counted among the top ten organizations that comprised the City Cartel.

It took less than 30 minutes for the key members who had followed their leader Camila to be completely annihilated.

“…….”

But even in the midst of this, Lee Hyeon slowly pressed forward against the remaining stragglers,

and in that suffocating situation,

Lee Hyeon’s footsteps stopped for the first time.

Slice!!

Along with the abnormal sight of flames and lightning being cleanly cut away,

a dense spider web had formed around Lee Hyeon.

 

[The legend ‘Spider That Defeated God with Weaving’ traps you in ‘Spider Hell’!]

 

『Gwiroae……!! How dare you…… Do you think you’ll be safe after this? I’ll tear you to shreds for slaughtering my subordinates……!!』

Camila’s voice, filled with rage, echoed shrilly above Lee Hyeon’s head.

In this moment, the fact that her subordinates had been massacred made her forget the Boss’s order to bring him back alive.

Then, Lee Hyeon slowly raised his head.

A mask with an unreadable expression.

Cold golden eyes visible beyond it.

He looked somewhere and spoke.

“For someone already dead, you sure babble a lot of nonsense.”

Camila wanted to scream at him not to talk nonsense.

But,

‘……!?’

Strangely, no words came out.

As if something was completely blocking her.

Rumble……. Grumble…….

Flash! Flash!!

Crackle…….

At the same time, countless sounds of electric current and Lightning Energy pierced her sensitive ears. The surroundings were completely filled with Gwiroae’s Lightning.

Only then did Camila realize.

This place was already,

no different from being inside the belly of the giant whale called Gwiroae.

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